tonga

CEFRB2

/ˈtɒŋ.ə/

noun

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Examples

Tonga has a reasonably sound basic infrastructure and well developed social services.
Volcanic eruptions in Tonga have created a new island.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

In context

I live in Tonga.
Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.
Enela cleared their way through the throng, speaking in Tonga, a heavy language that freighted the air with ceremony.

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Enela cleared their way through the throng, speaking in Tonga, a heavy language that freighted the air with ceremony.
2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth
Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.
1890, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.
1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13
The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42

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From Tongan Tonga, from Samoan toga (“southern”).